Why this column

Why women are better at Science Science wears a cloak of objectivity, but in reality,
all science is personal. It is what you make of the world.
And in India, women
have a better chance of developing a "Personal Science".

The Science of Sex Appeal
Sex Appeal: What do women find attractive in men? And why?
Isn't it time you discussed these issues with teenagers near you?

Learning to Talk
Learning language requires experiencing the world, and that requires a
body. How the meaning of verbs are being learned by correlating that
word with seeing those actions - a snapshot of current work at IIT
Kanpur. How can a 2D shape like a circle have gender?

Your home zoo: Creatures that love to eat you
Learn the complicated life of this tiny organism - it lives
in your liver, but can reproduce
only in the mosquito. As you
read this line, it has killed two people on earth.
[October 21, 2004]

Dinosaurs that roamed in your Home
On a winter day like this 180 million years ago, a Barapasaurus
Tagorei may have walked in the forest at this very place where you are
today sitting, and perhaps he looked over your shoulder to this very
paper you are reading.
[December 2, 2004]

Who inspires us?

Find out about
Arvind Gupta,
who has been planting the seeds of learning
in thousands of minds. Today where there was a desert, thousands
of saplings are waving in the breeze.

You may also be interested in Jagriti, a volunteer
group that operates several schools in rural Kanpur and for the
migrant labour population that works in the brick kilns. The project
is partly supported by
Asha,
AidIndia and by people like you.

Many of the ideas in these columns were developed while interacting with
kids in the BRiCS
project which promotes hands-on learning learning in Indian schools.
This project is funded by the Media Lab Asia
Project of the Ministry of Information Technology.